New Trends In Storage Technology: AFD

I have a passing interest in storage technology and trends so you can probably guess I got really excited after...

SQL Saturday #33 Recap

SQL Saturday #33 was held on Saturday, 3/6, at the Microsoft campus in Charlotte. Hosted by the Charlotte SQL Server...

Solid State Drive Performance Hands-On: Part 1

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Yo, I don't think we should talk about this
Come on, why not?
People might misunderstand what...

Presenting At SQL Saturday #33 - Charlotte

Just a quick note to let you know that I'm presenting two sessions at SQL Saturday #33 in Charlotte on...

A Tale Of Two Execution Plans – Solved!

Earlier this week I wrote about a perplexing problem I was having where identical servers were producing different execution plans...

A Tale Of Two Execution (Updated)

Update: Scroll to the bottom for more information added after originally posting.
Earlier this week a coworker asked me for help...

Three Things That Got Me Here

Tim Mitchell (Blog | Twitter) and Jack Corbett (Blog | Twitter) both tagged me in the latest meme circulating through the SQL...

Use Your Tech Skills To Help Haiti

By now you've heard about last week's earthquake in Haiti and have seen the devastating impact that it had on...

We Interrupt Your Regular SQL Blogging For This Announcement…

EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty 
   @name = N'IsWifePregnant', 
   @value = N'True',
   @level0type = N'USER',
   @level0name = N'Kendal.VanDyke' ;

EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty 
   @name = N'ExpectedDueDate',
   @value = N'August 2010',
   @level0type = N'USER',
   @level0name...

10 Goals For 2010

As is the traditional thing to do at the beginning of a new year I'm making goals for what I'd...